The construction of extended supply and use and input-output tables has been presented as a means of addressing some of the current challenges for the national accounts that are induced by economic globalisation. Such tables take into account within-industry firm heterogeneity that is not...

Consistency with detailed national data is an important challenge when using multi-regional input-output (MRIO) tables for carbon footprint analysis at the national level. This article presents carbon footprint calculations for Belgium with original and adapted MRIO tables from the World...

This paper documents a trend towards deglobalization in European-based multinational networks for the period 2010-2019. In the second half of the decade, the number of foreign contraction episodes shows an increasing trend, while the number of foreign expansions decreased substantially. Foreign...

The fear of massive job losses has prompted a fast-growing literature on offshoring and its impact on employment in advanced economies. This paper examines the situation for Belgium. It improves the offshoring intensity measure by computing a volume measure of the share of imported intermediates...

Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This article contributes to the growing literature that tests empirically whether offshoring does indeed help to improve productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business...